A CERAMIC ART COMPANY/LENOX CLARET-GROUND CABINET PLATE

1904-1905, GILT PRINTED ACA MONOGRAM, WREATH AND LENOX MARK, IMPRESSED LENOX 00, GILT PRINTED RETAILER'S MARK FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, SIGNED B. GEYER

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A CERAMIC ART COMPANY/LENOX CLARET-GROUND CABINET PLATE
1904-1905, gilt printed ACA monogram, wreath and Lenox mark, impressed LENOX 00, gilt printed retailer's mark for Tiffany & Co., New York, signed B. Geyer
In the Art Nouveau style, finely painted with a shoulder-length portrait of a woman wearing a turban and holding a stylus, within a gilt band decorated with raised vines, the border gilt with eight panels of stylized flowering branches
10¼in. (26.4cm.) diam.

Literature

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Porcelain 1770-1920, New York, 1989, pp. 250-251

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Porcelain 1770-1920, 8 April - 25 June 1989, no. 96

Lot Essay

The original drawing for the border design, retained in the Lenox archives, describes the pattern as "Tiffany Special" and notes that it was intended for use in combination with "Geyer Heads". A set of twelve, similar to the present example but with the more common cobalt-blue ground, is retained at Lenox.

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